Cypherpunk Guild Monthly Report 2021-04

Month: April 2021

Guild Name: Cypherpunk Guild

Monthly Highlights

Infrastructure

  • Paperwork to create a Swiss association ready for lawyers’ review.

Publicity and solicitation

  • First CPG Community Call held 9 April, with 20 participants.
  • Sponsoring the Porcupine Freedom Festival, probably the world’s largest venue for cryptocurrency usage as normal money.

Assessment and selection

  • Met with Nym to discuss collaboration possibilities.

Acceptance

  • Awarded $55k in grants to:

    1. Suterusu Suter Shield, a native smart contract that will provide access to Suterusu’s private-transaction protocol, based on ZK-ConSNARK technology
    2. AssuredArt, an online store for NFT-based digital art
    3. Zero Aggression Smart Contract, which will encourage users to commit to honest behavior or suffer a financial penalty
  • Decided to invest $100k in the $1.5M seed round of ZKSneak, ZKP-based software for anonymous and private transactions.

Monitoring and support

  • ZeroPool: continued providing support. Test launch planned for late May.

Social Media Management and Analytics:

  • The Twitter account (@CypherpunkGuild) has 202 followers.
  • The Matrix room (#cypherpunkguild:matrix.org) has 52 members.
1 Like

1 Like

Thanks for the good work! It would be nice if cypherpunk can share more about the funded projects with the NEAR community so we can get to know how the ecosystem is growing.

1 Like

Ozy wrote this nice piece about the grant to Suterusu, and more news will be coming. I’ll post this blurb also in the Suterusu topic.
https://medium.com/nearprotocol/the-cypherpunk-guild-funds-suterusu-3d93e818ec2c
The Cypherpunk Guild Funds Suterusu
The Suter Shield is Coming to NEAR Protocol